Python in a Nutshell

Name

choose

Synopsis

choose(a,values)

Returns an array c with the same shape as a. values is a sequence. a’s elements are integers between 0, included, and len( values ), excluded. Each element of c is the item of values whose index is the corresponding element of a. For example:

print Numeric.choose(Numeric.identity(3),'ox')   
# prints: [[x o o]
#          [o x o]
#          [o o x]]